Graduate Research Poster Session
Call for Proposals
The Graduate Research Poster Session will be held on January 28, 2010 during the visit to the College by the Board of Trustees. Graduate students currently doing research or working on creative projects are invited to present their research/project at the poster session. Students who have been awarded with a Graduate Student Research and/or Presentation Grant in the past year are strongly encouraged to participate.
Poster Session Criteria:
- What: Fifty 4’ x 6’ posters (two per cork poster board) highlighting graduate research from the master’s programs carried out during the prior calendar year
- When: January 28th, during the BOT visit, 3:30 – 5:30 pm (student presentation of research); posters can be set up between 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 pm
- Where: Stern Student Center Ballroom
- Why: Graduate program research is one of the hidden “gems in the crown” of the College of Charleston. The poster session will provide an introduction to the impressive research activities currently taking place in our graduate programs. The project abstracts will also recognize the ongoing contributions of graduate students, faculty, and alumni to the betterment of our local, state, and global communities.
Review process:
- Students should submit electronically an application including names of poster author(s), poster presenter(s), and supervising faculty; title of project; and project abstract to graduate program director by November 17.
- Graduate program directors will coordinate the selection of up to five projects and forward these to Graduate School by November 24.
- Ad hoc committee on Graduate Research and Funding will select the 50 posters by December 1 that will be displayed at the poster session, trying to ensure representation from a wide range of programs and projects.
- Graduate School will notify students (and their supervising faculty) whose 50 posters have been selected by December 8.
- Graduate students must have their poster completed and printed by December 20 or by January 15, if the student is enrolled in spring classes at the College.
- A committee of faculty and deans will select the best entry from each School and the best overall poster on the day of the Poster Session, January 28.
- Poster winners and prizes will be awarded the following week.
Poster Session Follow-Up:
- Electronic copies of the posters will be posted on the Graduate Research and Creative Activities website, maintained by the Graduate School and linked to program websites.
- Photos of the winners will also be posted on the website.
- Winners will be invited to write a blog post on their project.
